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Temer’s deforestation policies put Paris goals at risk, scientists warn

Sue Branford 24 Jul 2018

A warmer climate tinkers with Arctic spider’s choice of prey

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2018

Colombia pledges to produce deforestation-free chocolate

Mongabay.com 23 Jul 2018
Sumatran elephants are critically endangered and could go extinct in the wild before mid-century. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Study finds elephants plant trees, play big role in forest structure

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Jul 2018

As planned excise flops, Indonesia ponders how to give up plastic bags

Basten Gokkon 23 Jul 2018

One-third of global fisheries operating at biologically unsustainable levels

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018

Peru: Marañón dry forests protected as a regional conservation area

Vanessa Romo 20 Jul 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, July 20, 2018

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018

New species of shark named after pioneering ‘Shark Lady’ Eugenie Clark

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018

Latam Eco Review: Ecuadoran court demands Chevron pay $9.5 billion in damages

Mongabay.com 20 Jul 2018

DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging

John Vidal 19 Jul 2018

Securing a future for Grevy’s zebras and the cultures of northern Kenya (commentary)

Alex Dudley 19 Jul 2018

Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

India’s pre-election changes to green laws draw criticism

Mayank Aggarwal 19 Jul 2018

Cross-border camera trap research puts wild Amur leopard number at 84

Mongabay.com 19 Jul 2018

First fern genomes sequenced — and they hold a lot of promise

Shreya Dasgupta 18 Jul 2018

Grasslands may trump forests at carbon storage in a warming world

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jul 2018

RSPO walks back suspension of Nestlé

Mongabay.com 18 Jul 2018

Southeast Asian deforestation more extensive than thought, study finds

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Jul 2018

How a better understanding of psychopathology in captive primates can aid in conservation efforts

Mike Gaworecki 18 Jul 2018

Red flags abound as a warming Arctic opens up to shipping

Basten Gokkon 18 Jul 2018
A western chimpanzee in Liberia. Image by Cameron Zohoori via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)

New report spotlights financiers of palm oil giant clearing Liberia’s forests

Daniel Pye 17 Jul 2018

Cracks appear in Malaysia’s building spree, once a model for development

Keith Schneider 17 Jul 2018
Duong Le feeds shrimp on his intensive shrimp farm in Long An Province, Vietnam. Image by Zoe Osborne for Mongabay.

Pushing Vietnam’s shrimp industry toward sustainability

Zoe Osborne 17 Jul 2018

Indigenous peoples control one-quarter of world’s land surface, two-thirds of that land is ‘essentially natural’

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2018

New species of venomous snake discovered by accident in Australia

Mongabay.com 17 Jul 2018

Peru: A decade-long quest to protect the world’s largest tropical glacier

Vanessa Romo 17 Jul 2018

EU demand siphons illicit timber from Ukraine, investigation finds

John Cannon 17 Jul 2018
Wood that was cut for charcoal production near Katha, northern Myanmar. Villages in this area used to cut teak and other valuable trees for export, but have since started producing charcoal. The charcoal being exported to China can be made from any tree, regardless of size or kind. This amount of trees could produce about 150 bags of charcoal. Photo by Nathan Siegel for Mongabay.

‘Single-minded determination’: China’s global infrastructure spree rings alarm bells

Basten Gokkon 17 Jul 2018
Coral reef in the Dominican Republic. Photo by Greg Asner.

Bold initiative aims to protect coral reefs in the Dominican Republic

Greg Asner, Clare LeDuff 16 Jul 2018

Pay more attention to forests to avert global water crisis, researchers urge

Mongabay.com 16 Jul 2018
John Aini at a Malagan ceremony. Image by JC Salyer.

Protecting PNG’s oceans: Q&A with marine activist John Aini

Basten Gokkon 16 Jul 2018

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